Night train route
Intercités de Nuit
Paris → Lourdes · France
- Distance
- 830 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 10 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF Voyageurs
- Train
- ICN couchettes
- Countries
- France
- In service since
- 1866
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Pyrenean pilgrim night train: out of Austerlitz every evening on the classic line through Poitiers and Dax, waking beneath the mountains at Lourdes.
How this line was checked
- The 578 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6317216 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 28 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCF Connect — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FR) ↗
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